OpenAI Status · History · Incident #6548

RESOLVED

Chatgpt.com is down - all signups and logins are down as of right now

Minor · Started Aug 20, 2026 · 12:02 AM

Duration

52m
Severity

Minor
Detection lead

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User reports

Peak 1/hr

Summary

Chatgpt.com is down - all signups and logins are down as of right now

All impacted services have now fully recovered.

Started

Aug 20, 2026 · 12:02 AM
Resolved

Aug 20, 2026 · 12:54 AM
Duration

52m
Severity

Minor

Event timeline

How this incident unfolded

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Identified
Aug 20 · 12:02 AM OpenAI

We have identified that users are experiencing elevated errors for the impacted services. We are working on implementing a mitigation.
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Identified
Aug 20 · 12:03 AM OpenAI

We have identified that users are experiencing login issues for the impacted services. We are working on implementing a mitigation.
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Monitoring
Aug 20 · 12:25 AM OpenAI

We have applied the mitigation and are monitoring the recovery.
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Monitoring
Aug 20 · 12:35 AM OpenAI

We have applied the mitigation and are monitoring the recovery.
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Resolved
Aug 20 · 12:54 AM OpenAI

All impacted services have now fully recovered.

User reports · incident window

Report volume over time

Hourly report count. Red bars mark the incident window.

Peak: 1 reports/hr

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